On 11 March 2011 the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Japan changed forever. An earthquake and tsunami destroyed towns and villages on the northeast coast. What started as a natural disaster, turned into one of the worst industrial accidents in human history and a reminder that humanity must urgently turn its efforts towards safe, clean renewables.
The Fukushima nuclear disaster showed once again the inherent risks of nuclear power and exposed the failures in the whole system. We have to phase out dangerous nuclear power entirely, and do so as soon as possible. Every reactor can fail and put millions at risk. We need to learn the lessons from Fukushima.
On March 1 1954, on Bikini Atoll, in the Marshall Islands, the US military detonated the world’s first lithium-deuteride hydrogen bomb, a thousand times more powerful than the Hiroshima and…